Rhodian Amphora and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Hellenistic Period

尽管在地中海及其周围的不同地点发现了数以千计的带有罗迪亚印记的两栖动物手柄，但日本使团在中埃及阿科里斯的挖掘中发现了200多个手柄，这让人们对公元前3世纪和2世纪罗迪亚人及其产品在东地中海历史上的作用有了新的了解。所有的手柄都来自大型石灰岩块的填充物，似乎是运往亚历山大的。在阿科里斯和亚历山大港，在第三次马其顿战争后罗迪亚人投降和在德洛斯港建立自由港后，进口的罗得亚两栖动物的数量并没有急剧减少。这一现象强烈地表明了罗得亚商业活动在希腊化后期的重要耐力。这也表明了托勒密埃及大都市和周边村庄之间的紧密经济联系。

Although many thousands of Rhodian stamped amphora handles have been found at the various sites in and around the Mediterranean, the discovery of more than 200 handles from the excavations at Akoris in Middle Egypt by the Japanese mission has thrown new light on the role of the Rhodians and their products in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean during the third and second century B.C. All of the handles derived from the fill of the large limestone blocks, which seem to have been bound for Alexandria. In both Akoris and Alexandria the amount of the imported Rhodian amphorae did not diminish sharply after the surrender of the Rhodians and the establishment of free port at Delos after the Third Macedonian War. This Phenomenon strongly suggests the vital endurance of the Rhodian commercial activity in later Hellenistic Period. It also indicates the close economic tie of the metropolitan city and the peripheral village in the Ptolemaic Egypt.